The Nintendo DS is the second best-selling video game platform in history, behind the PlayStation 2, and the best-selling handheld in gaming history. Itsold 154.88 million units in its lifetime.

It sold incredibly well in all three major regions, shifting 57.37 million units in North America, 52.07 units in Europe, and a massive 33.01 million units in Japan. It also sold a combined 12.43 million units across the rest of the world.

Unsurprisingly given it enormous install base the Nintendo DS also managed to shift a lot of games. 139 games for the console managed to sell over 1 million units and every entry in the top 10 sold more than 10 million units. Below we've compiled those 10 best-selling Nintendo DS games.

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DS the first and still only system to ever have ten games selling over 10m units, that's amazing. Wii almost made it to. Especially impressive since number 10 is a remake; there aren't a lot of remakes selling those kinds of numbers, that's Pokemon territory. And speaking of Pokemon, when that game's only at number 5, you know you did well!

*sigh* I don't know how many times it can be said, but one pirated version does not equal one lost sale. That is not how it works. Does piracy have some impact? Sure. Can that impact be at all accurately measured? Not at all.

That was when Nintendo's casual gaming audience was at it's peak. The DS also got support from Nintendo's core gamers. Marketing was really good at Nintendo back then as well. I remember it was either time magazine or some other major publication that had a major article about Brain Age and the DS. These days, that couldn't happen with the 3DS or Wii U.